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Aaron loves Angela (1975) directed by. Gordon Parks Jr.

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“I remember several times going to the farm with the Shaykh [Ibrāhīm]. I asked my father one day, ‘Do you think all our efforts on the farm, that one day we will get paid for them?’ He said, 'Who told you that we are going to the farm to get money? We are going to the farm to worship God. Work is worship.’ My father used to say, 'If you are in a place and you do nothing, you are spoiling that place. I do not know where a man can stay and get all he needs without doing anything. If you know that type of house, let me know. I’ll be the first one to close my house and move down there.’”

— Shaykh Ḥasan b. Sayyid ‘Alī Cissé on his father, al-Imām ‘Alī b. al-Ḥasan Cissé; recorded in 1997 by Dr. Zachary Wright (”Living Knowledge in West African Islām: The Sufi Community of Ibrāhīm Niasse”)

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“The path to cognizance (ma'rifa) is not a process of learning. It is a process of bringing out from the depths of one’s spirit what he had known all along. The Knowers of God did not become knowers by traveling a path and picking up knowledge along the way. They became knowers by removing the veils of their egotistical selves until what was hidden on the bottom of the ocean of their spirit appeared on the surface.”

— Ustādh Ṭālūt Dawood

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Morocco Fez Tijani door of a sanctuary. 1983

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Marion Scemama. Pier 34/ Rick Prol, 1983.

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datura metel

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milène sanchez, "there isn't time," 2023, oil on canvas

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Tajouje by Gadalla Gubara (1977)

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Rihanna photographed by Gray Sorrenti for Harper’s Bazaar, November 2020

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Wild horses crossing a river in Iran - Eydi Heydari